Best World War II movies

Actors : Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler, Vincent Macaigne,
Directors : Cédric Klapisch,

Follows the lives of the cousins who inherit an old house in rural Normandy and retrace their steps of their ancestors in 19th century Paris.

Actors : Nina Bergman, Daniel Bernhardt, Louis Mandylor, Timothy V. Murphy,
Directors : Jesse V. Johnson,

Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold hunted by the Nazis, the French resistance, and the Americans alike.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to ...

Actors : François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from German captivity, too weak to ...

Actors : Ellen Barkin, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish, Jon Voight,
Directors : Eugene Corr,

The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic...

Actors : Patrick Bergin, Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Robert Joamie,
Directors : Vincent Ward,

Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his ...

Actors : Andrey Terentev, Vladimir Yaglych, Dmitriy Volkostrelov, Danila Kozlovsky,
Directors : Andrey Malyukov,

My iz budushchego, or We Are from the Future, is a movie about time travel. Four 21st century treasure seekers are transported back into the middle of a WWII battle in Russia. The movie's ...

Actors : Vincent D'Onofrio, Tracey Ullman, Judith Malina, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Nancy Savoca,

Unsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy.

Actors : Rod Taylor, Werner Peters, Eva Marie Saint, James Garner,
Directors : George Seaton,

Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

Actors : Kay Greidanus, Sigrid ten Napel, Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Lisa Zweerman,
Directors : Pieter Kuijpers,

The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.

Actors : Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Eddie Albert, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : David Miller,

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

Actors : Galina Andreeva, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia - like fifty thousand others during WWII.

Actors : Wotan Wilke Möhring, Iain Glen, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Vivian Ólafsdóttir, Jack Fox,
Directors : Óskar Thór Axelsson,

A lawyer sucked is into an international conspiracy after being accused of a murder she didn't commit. Her only chance of survival lies in uncovering the secret of an old German WWII airplane, discovered on Iceland's largest glacier.

Actors : Jan Bijvoet, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Gijs Blom, Jamie Flatters, Tom Felton, Susan Radder,
Directors : Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.,

1944, the Second World War. A British glider pilot, a Dutch boy fighting on the German side and a Dutch female resistance member all end up involved in the Battle of the Scheldt. Their choices differ, but their goal is the same: freedom.

Actors : Tyler Wood, Yusuke Ogasawara, Timothy V. Murphy, Hiroyuki Watanabe,

In post-war Tokyo, undefeated Japanese Champion trains for his upcoming bout against the American challenger. Pitted amongst political tensions, the fighters' parallel journeys will test the very limits of human spirit.

Actors : Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova,
Directors : Stanislav Rostotskiy,

During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

Actors : Miki Mizuno, Les Loveday, Sam Hazeldine, Ario Bayu,
Directors : Steven Sheil,

The legend of Yamashita's Gold lures a treasure hunter and his group deep into the Indonesian jungle. Once they are trapped in an abandoned World War II Japanese bunker, they face the terrifying reality that the only way out is to go further in.

Actors : John Turk, Trevor Donovan, Michael Wayne Foster, James Maslow,
Directors : Michael B. Chait,

Inspired by the real-life German special operations unit KG 200 that shot down, repaired, and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses, "Wolf Hound" takes place in 1944 German-occupied France ...

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Yul Brynner, Sylva Koscina, Franco Nero,
Directors : Veljko Bulajic,

Battle on Neretva known as the ''fourth offensive'' the most humane battle in World War II led by Yugoslav partisans. In January 1943 German army, afraid of Allied invasion of Balkans, ...

Actors : Vladimir Mashkov, Yuliya Peresild, Sergey Garmash, Anjorka Strechel,
Directors : Aleksey Uchitel,

In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.